How Fast Do You Read?

I can remember what one was, but remember no text and no point from either of them. So it doesn't even matter that I read them "slowly", I still didn't glean any actual info from them.

750-800 words per minute.

I wonder how it coordinates to typing speed, as well, because I can type unbelievably fast, too.

I got 600-650 on the Kennedy address, but I usually read slower than that, since I have a tendency to brood and get lost in thoughts (associations, mainly), not to mention when I want to either learn something by heart or cherish the language.

Ahh, Typingtest.com
If anyone else bothers with these, I'm curious... Do you Touch type, or have some curious finger-brew of your own? I'm in the latter camp, not having heard of Touch until it was far too late to consider switching.

I feel similar to Nomar, I feel I am getting worse at devouring novels, and sometimes get distracted when I'm trying to concentrate on reading.

Those of you reading at 800 plus, were you always that fast or have you just gotten gradually faster and faster because you read a ton? Also, can you really absorb what you're reading at that rate?

But I sometimes come across books where the prose acts like a speed ramp. For example, Updike's 'Seek My Face' completely jarred my usual reading spead because of its incredibly long sentences.

Recently I've also been experimenting with reading aloud to try to strengthen my voice, which makes my reading speed really slow.

Just heard that people who visualize what they read more are more slower than readers with strong aphantasia. Maybe that's an additional reason why I'm so slow.

I cannot visualise anything and I read too fast, so I dunno

the times on the kobo website always feel very optimistic to me

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/bleak-house-46

1200+ pages in 30 hours?

I'm a moderately slow reader, or I assume so. I've never measured my rate or compared it to the median rate so that's just my impression.

It really depends on what I'm reading. The slower the better ime.

soooooooo slow.

wish I could slow down and retain more, just too impatient

have pretty much never been able to read more than abt 35 pages/hour and it truly drives me up fuckin the wall. used to try different tricks and techniques to speed up but nothing ever sat well, gave up trying years ago.

i'm a subvocalizer, which i always thought was how everyone read but apparently not. i've tried to break the habit but reading without 'hearing' the words is very strange to me, and it feels like i'm not absorbing anything or even reading at all.

Until about 1800 or thereabouts silent reading was almost unknown.

About 80-100 pages an hour, faster itf it's a bio and other non-fic.

About the same,

(oops)... don't think I'm faster for non fic though. I subvocalise (wouldn't know how to stop) and visualise.

I probably don't achieve the giddy heights of 80wpm with e.g. Henry James.

wpm? ppm.

Yes that's 80 posts per minute trying to correct my own idiotic mistakes. Pph.

I thinkit was comfortably about a page a minute if I was relaxing. Did get a bit faster overa summer in 2003 when I was just reading books at top speed. about a book a day. Not sure what i retained from it, think I read acouple of thigs a couple of times. Was just working through a whole load of books from teh University library.
Could possibly do with rereading a couple of them. I remember reading a book on Rimbaud and his time in Africa which I wish i could remember teh contenst of better. Also I think KIng Leopold's Ghost was taht summer.
Did I read Korzibski then too?

Anyway think about a page a minute comfortably .

I've been stuck at 6 pages per hour for YEARS, it's fucking hell

i'm a subvocalizer, which i always thought was how everyone read but apparently not. i've tried to break the habit but reading without 'hearing' the words is very strange to me, and it feels like i'm not absorbing anything or even reading at all.

I cannot visualise anything and I read too fast, so I dunno

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Same. I used to think it was cool to read 2-3 books in a day and now I think it sucks.

I'm increasingly slow and it pains me - probably 40 pages an hour, but I genuinely can't remember the last time I had an unbroken hour of reading.